For the first time, U.S. may force polluters to clean up these ‘forever chemicals’
4/20/24
Corals are bleaching in every corner of the ocean, threatening its web of life
4/16/24
Environmentalism could stop the clean-energy transition
4/9/24
The GOP is freaking out about an industry that doesn’t even exist yet
4/3/24
Biden-Harris Administration Announces Temporary Pause on Pending Approvals of Liquefied Natural Gas Exports
1/27/24
One of the most intense El Niños ever observed could be forming
9/27/23
California plans big insurance shifts as climate change hits home
9/23/23
D.C. approves e-bike vouchers plan to get people out of their cars
9/21/23
How the dream of air conditioning turned into the dark future of climate change
9/21/23
The Sierra Club hired its first Black leader. Turmoil over racial equity followed.
9/8/23
Biden to block oil drilling in ‘irreplaceable’ Alaskan wildlands
9/7/23
Maui’s neglected grasslands caused Lahaina fire to grow with deadly speed
9/2/23
Police truck plows into peaceful climate blockade
8/29/23
Judge rules in favor of Montana youths in landmark climate decision
8/15/23
Can vacuums slow global warming? Administration bets $1.2 billion on it.
8/12/23
Will Wildfires Like These Become the New Normal?
6/11/23
Scientists ran a health check on the Earth — and the results are worrying
6/2/23
Seas have drastically risen along southern U.S. coast in past decade
4/10/23
After the Ohio Train Derailment: Evacuations, Toxic Chemicals and Water Worries
2/15/23
How New Zealand plans to tackle climate change: Taxing cow burps
2/1/23
Which food is better for the planet?
2/1/23
These everyday items endanger the environment. Here’s how to handle them.
1/31/23
How dark money groups led Ohio to redefine gas as ‘green energy’
1/17/23
How Gas Stoves Became the Latest Right-Wing Cause in the Culture Wars
1/15/23
U.S. agency examines secret pollution source in 40 million homes: Gas stoves.
1/11/23
Ozone layer continues to heal, a key development for health, food security and the planet, U.N. study says
1/9/23
Scientists say planet in midst of sixth mass extinction, Earth's wildlife running out of places to live
1/5/23
Nantucket Residents File Lawsuit To Stop Offshore Wind Farm
12/15/22
U.N. wants Great Barrier Reef labeled ‘in danger.’ Australia says ‘no need.’
11/29/22
Can we fix our battered politics to deal with converging crises?
11/1/22
Florida Leaders Rejected Major Climate Laws. Now They’re Seeking Storm Aid.
10/7/22
Air conditioning has a climate problem. New technology could help.
9/13/22
His family fished for generations. Now he’s hauling plastic out of the sea.
8/31/22
These are the trash mountains of South Asia that threaten the climate
7/27/22
Electrification is energy efficiency.
7/27/22
U.K. sees hottest day on record, with temperatures hitting 40 Celsius
7/19/22
Biden could declare climate emergency as soon as this week, sources say
7/19/22
The U.S. plan to avoid extreme climate change is running out of time
7/19/22
Once nearly extinct, bison are now climate heroes
7/15/22
Big fish sightings are spiking. Climate change may be the cause.
7/8/22
Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to combat climate change
6/30/22
Canada banning single-use plastics to combat pollution, climate change
6/22/22
This Styrofoam-eating ‘superworm’ could help solve the garbage crisis
6/19/22
Tree rings from centuries past may help reveal a warming planet’s future
3/23/22
Texas warns firms they could lose state contracts for divesting from fossil fuels.
3/21/22
The SEC proposed a landmark climate disclosure rule. Here’s what to know.
3/21/22
Biden will allow California to set climate limits on cars. The move could influence the rest of the country.
2/17/22
Climate change: For 25th year in a row, Greenland ice sheet shrinks
1/9/22
More than 40 percent of Americans live in counties hit by climate disasters in 2021
1/6/22
Cold, heat, fires, hurricanes and tornadoes: The year in weather disasters
12/19/21
Climate change crisis: Golf courses on borrowed time as Earth's weather patterns become wilder
12/8/21
How might climate change impact N.H.'s Christmas trees?
12/7/21
Great Pacific Garbage Patch now three times the size of France
11/23/21
The devastating new UN report on climate change, explained
10/27/21
Russia allows methane leaks at planet’s peril
10/19/21
Oil spill threatens Southern California wildlife and closes beaches while Coast Guard investigates source of leak
10/4/21
EPA to cut greenhouse gases thousands of times more powerful than carbon dioxide
9/23/21
‘This is environmental racism’
8/22/21
ESG Principles: How Sustainable Investing Is Changing the World
8/16/21
A battle of green against green in this Texas community
8/3/21
It’s Not a Border Crisis. It’s a Climate Crisis.
7/24/21
The total health and climate consequences of the American food system cost three times as much as the food itself
7/19/21
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef should be listed as ‘in danger,’ U.N. body says
6/22/21
Maine tries to shift some costs of recycling onto companies instead of taxpayers
6/14/21
Biden administration suspends oil and gas leases in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
6/2/21
Chinese greenhouse gas emissions now larger than those of developed countries combined
5/6/21
Are our pets gobbling up the planet?
4/29/21
Climate change linked to serious pregnancy risks, 'landmark' study finds
4/22/21
As Biden convenes world leaders, U.S. pledges to cut emissions up to 52 percent by 2030
4/22/21
Smoke from wildfires wiped out the U.S. pandemic-related clean air gains in 2020
3/17/21
Biden wants to pay farmers to plant crops — and carbon, too
1/22/21
The heat gap dividing a major US city
12/15/20
Trump EPA finalizes rollback making it harder to enact new public health rules
12/9/20
Earth just notched its warmest November, as 2020 closes in on record for hottest year
12/7/20
How Biden aims to amp up the government’s fight against climate change
11/11/20
Trump Administration Removes Scientist in Charge of Assessing Climate Change
11/11/20
To Save the Climate, Give Up the Demand for Constant Electricity
10/30/20
Republicans get history wrong by naming anti-Green New Deal caucus after Teddy Roosevelt
9/14/20
NO Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge!
8/25/20
Trump Administration Finalizes Plan to Open Arctic Refuge to Drilling
8/21/20
What We Know About Kamala Harris’ Climate Record
8/21/20
COVID-19 gave the planet a break. Now's the time to keep up the momentum
8/3/20
Trump Administration Plows Ahead On Alaska’s Pebble Mine
7/27/20
Climate change is making flood risk worse
6/29/20
There's no such thing as clean coal
6/29/20
New Orleans air pollution plummeted during coronavirus shutdown, but how long will it last?
6/19/20
Can India chart a low-carbon future? The world might depend on it.
6/12/20
Global emissions plunged an unprecedented 17 percent during the coronavirus pandemic
5/20/20
Michael Moore’s green energy takedown—worse than Netflix’s Goop series?
4/29/20
Climate experts call for 'dangerous' Michael Moore film to be taken down
4/29/20
"you absolutely love to see this..."
4/21/20
In India, life under coronavirus brings blue skies and clean air
4/11/20
The silver lining to coronavirus lockdowns: Air quality is improving
4/9/20
Trump Administration Weakens Auto Emissions Standards
4/6/20
Loss of life expectancy from air pollution compared to other risk factors: a worldwide perspective
3/26/20
Lincoln’s forgotten legacy as America’s first ‘green president’
2/17/20
State Attorneys General Are Waging a Climate Change Battle Against the Trump Administration
1/25/20
Shell's Oil Awakening
1/20/20
Trump proposes change to environmental rules to speed up highway projects, pipelines and more
1/9/20
White House update of key environmental law would exclude climate change
1/5/20
Tapping Electricity for New Therapies
1/1/20
The Terrible Tens are over. The Twenties may be even worse.
1/1/20
Best Decade Ever?
1/1/20
California's new normal: How the climate crisis is fueling wildfires
10/31/19
Environmentalists have a new target: Charmin toilet paper
10/15/19
‘They have to clean it up’: Trump says EPA will hit San Francisco with environmental violations over homelessness
9/20/19
Climate Confessions to Plants
9/19/19
Justice Dept. Investigates California Emissions Pact That Embarrassed Trump
9/12/19
Even the fossil-fuel industry doesn’t like the EPA’s methane rollback
9/2/19
The Amazon is burning. Bolsonaro says his critics are setting the fires, to make him look bad.
8/22/19
Al Gore Says Vegan Burgers Can Help Reverse Climate Change
8/22/19
Wind power prices now lower than the cost of natural gas
8/20/19
San Francisco airport banning sale of single-use plastic water bottles
8/18/19
Berkeley becomes first U.S. city to ban natural gas in new homes
7/23/19
Forget new crewed missions in space. NASA should focus on saving Earth.
7/21/19
AOC’s Chief of Change
7/15/19
Fact-checking Trump's speech on the US environment
7/10/19
Trump’s EPA just replaced Obama’s signature climate policy with a much weaker rule
6/21/19
'Green New Deal could fuel growth'
4/26/19
Bill de Blasio weighs in on potential 2020 run, Green New Deal
4/25/19
Study finds a race gap in air pollution — whites largely cause it; blacks and Hispanics breathe it
3/13/19
Save the Lemurs! Eat the Crickets!
3/6/19
The Green New Deal Could Launch Republican Climate Solutions
2/17/19
‘We’re nuts!’ isn’t a great pitch for a Green New Deal
2/10/19
Carbon Tax-and-Dividend Bill to Be Reintroduced
1/29/19
PG&E to declare bankruptcy amid multibillion-dollar liability claims for its part in California wildfires
1/17/19
E.P.A. Proposes Rule Change That Would Let Power Plants Release More Toxic Pollution
12/29/18
The many ways climate change worsens California wildfires
11/16/18
The California Fire That Killed 48 People Is the Deadliest U.S. Wildfire in a Century
11/16/18
Trump Signs Order On California Water Projects
10/20/18
The UN Sustainable Development Goals Report 2018
10/15/18
Cost of New Coal Rules: Up to 1,400 More Deaths a Year
8/21/18
EPA rolls back Obama-era coal pollution rules as Trump heads to West Virginia
8/21/18
Volunteers Struggle to Stop Garbage Washing Ashore in Manila Bay
8/14/18
Trump administration wants to lower emissions standards for cars
8/3/18
Pope Francis meets with oil executives, says ‘no time to lose’ on climate change
6/9/18
The EPA's climate of controversy
4/13/18
Trump reversal of elephant trophy ban underscores the need to watch what he does, not what he says
3/8/18
No Children Because of Climate Change? Some People Are Considering It
2/6/18
How a Healthy Economy Can Shorten Life Spans
10/17/17
Batteries Are the Next Target in China’s Clean-Energy Conquest
10/10/17
An Iceberg the Size of Delaware Just Broke Away From Antarctica
7/12/17
Solar Border Wall not Trump's Idea
6/25/17
A border wall made of solar panels wouldn't actually be good for the environment
6/25/17
Trump's Solar Freakin' Wall DEBUNKED!
6/25/17
New coal mine touted by Trump opens in Pennsylvania
6/10/17
The Cost of Trump’s Retreat From Rights
4/26/17
March for Science Demonstrators Say They’re the Real Patriots
4/23/17
Are There Two Different Versions of Environmentalism, One "White," One "Black"?
4/10/17
"Clean Coal is a Myth"
3/29/17
China Poised to Take Lead on Climate After Trump’s Move to Undo Policies
3/29/17
Policy Shift Helps Coal, but Other Forces May Limit Effect
3/29/17
How a War on Science Could Hurt the U.S.-and Its Citizens
2/7/17
A Crack in an Antarctic Ice Shelf Grew 17 Miles in the Last Two Months
2/7/17
President Obama bans oil drilling in large areas of Atlantic and Arctic oceans
12/20/16
The man who’ll head up the EPA
12/7/16
Trump's Pick Most Anti-EPA Chief in History
12/7/16
Nations, Fighting Powerful Refrigerant That Warms Planet, Reach Landmark Deal
10/15/16
The Anthropocene Should Bring Awe-and Act As a Warning
9/6/16
The Healing Power of Nature
7/19/16
How to Save the World’s Forests - With Tires
7/19/16
California's climate change agency just approved a $500 million plan — but there's no money for it
6/24/16
Greed, Politics and the Biggest Oil Boom in Decades
3/13/16
The Shocking Truth About America's Ethanol Law: It Doesn't Matter (For Now)
2/10/16
The longest floating structure in history is about to hit the ocean. It might fix a big problem.
8/19/15
Deny This: 2014 Was the Hottest Year on Record
5/17/15
Making Good, Plus a Profit
3/16/15
Troubled Waters on Planet Earth
2/5/15
British Columbia Enacted the Most Significant Carbon Tax in the Western Hemisphere. What Happened Next Is It Worked.
9/23/14
Pennsylvania Finally Reveals Fracking Has Contaminated Drinking Water Hundreds Of Times
9/15/14
The Last Coral Reefs
4/8/14
Keystone XL Pipeline clears significant hurdle
2/1/14
The Wait Continues for Safe Tap Water in West Virginia
1/12/14
What's The Matter With 60 Minutes?: Cleantech Edition
1/10/14
Canada's Tar Sands Oil Boom Yields Toxic Wastewater Lakes
11/23/13
Fracking wastewater contaminated— and likely radioactive
10/2/13
Obama Says He’ll Evaluate Pipeline Project Depending on Pollution
7/29/13
Natural gas rig blows out, is on fire off Louisiana coast
7/24/13
Beyond the Keystone Pipeline
7/15/13
Activists climb London's Shard skyscraper in dramatic protest over Arctic drilling
7/11/13
Stop shipping volatile oil by rail
7/11/13
The Next Move in Recycling
6/22/13
Electric-car costs can outweigh cheap fuel
6/14/13
Long Live the Lightbulb
6/3/13
A reality check on Tesla
5/18/13
Ocean temperatures highest in 150 years last year
4/29/13
EPA evaluating how it rates gas mileage for hybrids.
3/5/13
I'm with the Tree Huggers.
3/2/13
The New Oil and Gas Boom
10/23/12
Protestors gather at Keystone XL site in Texas
10/12/12
Carbon Credits Gone Awry Raise Output of Harmful Gas
8/8/12
Public comment period closed on EPA's Watershed Assessment
7/26/12
Over a Barrel
7/4/12
Seattle’s Silver Bullitt
6/25/12
Radioactive traces from Japan found in tuna off California
5/29/12
Left reacts to FreeMarket video
4/27/12
Arizona bill targets UN declaration
4/27/12
Fewer trash pickups in Seattle
4/11/12
4/9/12 • Gas Leak suffers BP comparison
The Future Of Oil
April 9, 2012
April 2, 2012 •Pollution in Utero
It's Easy Not Being Green
4/2/12
Tim DeChristopher In Isolated Confinement, Activists Report
3/28/12
March 22, 2012 •Obama expediting southern Keystone oil pipeline
March 9, 2012 • Obama’s $8,000 in gas savings a year — oops, over a car’s life
March 9, 2012 Government-subsidized green light bulb carries costly price tag